Orange County musician Michael Ubaldini discovered his 1970s band’s rare 45s are selling for up to $500, after unknowingly selling copies for $20 each.

The Earwigs gained an underground cult following through radio play and bootleg cassettes, despite never officially releasing their 1981 debut album.

The band will play a long-delayed album release party Saturday in Huntington Beach for their limited-edition vinyl pressing.

If someone told Michael Ubaldini that dusty copies of his old band’s records from four decades ago would sell for hundreds of dollars each, he probably wouldn’t have believed it. Not that anyone was really rushing to tell him. Especially not the internet-savvy young fans of his obscure, ‘70s power pop band the Earwigs that followed him to his present day gigs as a sin

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